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PHY226 Electronics          Syllabus          Spring Quarter, 2018

Instructor:      Cheng Chin <cchin@uchicago.edu>

  Lectures:       Tue & Thur         11:00‐12:20 pm        KPTC 105 

  Office hour:   Thur                    12:30‐01:30 pm        GCIS E107               

Teaching Assistants:

 Gray Putnam <grayputnam@uchicago.edu>

 Mark Lewis <marklewis@uchicago.edu>

Laboratory Instructors:

  Mark Chantell <mchantel@uchicago.edu>

  Dave McCowan <mccowan@uchicago.edu>

Textbooks:  Learning the Art of Electronics by T. Hayes and P. Horowitz 

(Recomm.) The Art of Electronics, 3rd Ed., P. Horowitz and W. Hill 

Lab sessions:   (Mon & Wed) 1:30‐5:20 pm or (Tue & Thur) 2:00-6:00 pm

Attendance of all lab sessions is required. Lab reports should be turned in by the end of the sessions.

Mon & Wed: KPTC208  TA: Charles Lewis
  Students: Clark, Finnegan   Hillary, Mark   Johnson, Tyler   Pol, William   Ricks, Wilson
 
Tu & Th: KPTC208  TA: Gray Putnam
  Students: Chapman, Kathryn   Fang, Shuwen   Haas, Michael   Iyer, Varun   Kruppe, Jonathon   Medvid, Catherine   Rodrigues Martins, Felipe   Werner, Tyler   Xiao, Yu

 

Grades:           14 Lab reports: 70%; Midterm exam: 15%; Final: 15%

Class outline:                                                                                                                                                        

Week Date Lecture Lab Report
1 3/27 DC circuits ------ no lab ------  
  3/29 Capacitors and inductors ------ no lab ------  
2 4/3 Diodes Lab 1: DC circuits Report 1
  4/5 P-N physics Lab 2: Capacitors Report 2
3 4/10 Transistors I Lab 3: Diodes Report 3
  4/12 Transistors II Lab 4: Transistors I Report 4
4 4/17 Operational amplifiers I Lab 5: Transistors II Report 5
  4/19 EFI electronics shop tour Lab 6: Op-amp I Report 6
5 4/24 Operational amplifiers II Lab 7: Op-amp II  
  4/26 Feedback Theory Lab 8: Op-amp III Report 7
6 5/1

Preparation Sheet

Midterm (lec.1~9)

Solution 1 2 3 4 5

Temperature Servo I Report 8
  5/3 Optoelectronics Temperature Servo II  
7 5/8 Optoelectronics Temperature Servo III  Report 9
  5/10 Analog meets digital Lab 13. Group Audio I Report 10
8 5/15 Gates 14N.1-.5 Lab 13. Group Audio II Report 11
  5/17 Flip-flops 15L.1-.2, N.6-.7 Lab 13. Gates Report 12
9 5/22 Counters Lab 14. Flip-Flops Report 13
  5/24 FPGA FPGA I  
10 5/29 Senior final FPGA II Report 14
  5/31 Final preparation    
11 6/7

Final 1:30~3:30pm

(lec. 11~17)